Śiva’s Migrations

Legends speak of Kuśasthaḷī, ancient yādava city at the mouth of river Gomati on the western coast of the Kāṭhīyāvāḍa (Kathiawar) peninsula, either where Dvārakā came to be established later or close to it. According to Bhāgavata Purāna, the city was built by Revata, a descendant of yādavaking Śaryātī. [Bhāgavata Purāna, Canto 9, Chapter 3 : 27] The yādava had a flourishing civilization at the western end of the Indo–Gangetic plain during the last ice-age, many millennia earlier than the Sindhu-Sarasvatī civilisation. The two gulfs of Kaccha(Kutch) and Khambat (Cambay), along with the sea coast between them as well as the navigable channel connecting them inland through the Little Rann and the Nal-Bhal depression, possibly constituted a massive port complex with numerous harbours, a flourishing trade and a highly developed urban culture. [Gaur et al, 2013 : Was The Rann Of Kachch Navigable During The Harappan Times, Current Science Vol. 105, 1489] The gulf of Kaccha was the mouth of the river Sarasvatī and the gulf of Khambat contains the mouths of rivers Māhi, Sābarmati and Narmadā. But history does not speak about what happened to this civilisation.